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hayath_dyno
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 Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 12:33 pm Post subject: Keeping loaches and goldfish together |
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Hi,
I had been on a visit to one of my friends in Anekal,
He took me to a place called Muthyalmaduvu falls. It is supposed to have a waterfall resembling PEARLS.
There was no water at all when we reached there. The waterfall was nothin more than a lilttle trickle. (We will be planning a trip again soon for some collection and will post the details then). One thing as an appetiser,, it is a beatiful place and for guys who love trekking (Like me  ), an absolute paradise
We managed to get a few fish what seemed like plain guppies, a few catfish shaped fish and a few loaches from the stagnant water between rocks. Also collected a few rocks from there.
Out of the 4 locahes, 3 of them are brown in colour with dark brown stripes. The other one is light brown and has spots on it.
Can anyone please ID these loaches (out of curiosity, would like to what are these). Sorry for not posting the pics, they havent come out properly in my Camera phone
I have kept these fishes (first occupants) in my second tank that I got from my cousin.
I would like to move these loaches to the goldfish tank.
Can anyone please tell me is it ok to have loaches and goldfish in the same tank, and moreover these guys are from the wild and i donno anything about their behavior, from what i saw since yesterday they seem peaceful and mind their own bottom-clinging business.
Looking forward to some replies on this,
~Hayath |
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Suby7272
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I have had loaches with goldfish before - never had any problem with it. Just that the loach would tail the goldfish at times - may be just out of curiosity.
ONE THING REMEMBER :
If you have any snail that you love, never mix that with loach. Snails are food for loach.
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| Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 1:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Loaches love cool oxygenated water. They shouldn't be much of a problem but they could get territorial as adults. |
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| Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 10:01 pm Post subject: |
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I don't know about the territorial aspects of loaches, but I have never heard of any problems from the loaches when kept with golds...
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| Have a sun loach or a Black Finned shark with gold fish, you'll know about their territorial behaviour. |
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| Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 12:46 pm Post subject: |
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Yo Yo loaches can get very aggressive and may attach our goldfish. Certain loaches are known to gauge out the eyes of other fish.
I suggest you watch them very closely to see if they are getting along. |
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| Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 12:03 am Post subject: |
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| the best thing to do is research the available loaches on the net and then decide. |
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| Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 9:47 am Post subject: |
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Hi Hayath:
Loaches and Goldfishes should not be kept together...
Clown and Tiger loach have the tendency to nip fins of other slow moving fihes...
Indian loaches (esp. wildcaught, love to graze on Algae)...If you keep them with Gold Fish, they'll tend to eat the body slime of Gold Fish during night time...This has been my personal observation during good old days of keeping Gold Fishes...
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| Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 10:59 pm Post subject: |
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Hi Hayath:
Loaches and Goldfishes should not be kept together...
Clown and Tiger loach have the tendency to nip fins of other slow moving fihes...
Indian loaches (esp. wildcaught, love to graze on Algae)...If you keep them with Gold Fish, they'll tend to eat the body slime of Gold Fish during night time...This has been my personal observation during good old days of keeping Gold Fishes...
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guess loaches are a no no when keeping with golds.
nag,
what about pepper corydora? can you keep them with golds? |
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| Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 11:21 pm Post subject: |
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Hi Navil:
I had kept Corys with Gold, without any problems...
But, ensure that the Corys get food which fall and sink to bottom...as they're scavengers...As most of us feed the gold fish food which is normally floating type and forget to feed the bottom dwellers...
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| Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 1:17 am Post subject: |
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nag,
in that case, what feed would you recommend? which one? |
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| Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 7:54 am Post subject: |
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| Any sinking pellets/ wafers will do... |
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| Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 8:13 am Post subject: |
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nag,
ok... thanx.... |
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| Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 10:24 am Post subject: |
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| nag wrote:
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Hi Hayath:
Loaches and Goldfishes should not be kept together...
Clown and Tiger loach have the tendency to nip fins of other slow moving fihes...
Indian loaches (esp. wildcaught, love to graze on Algae)...If you keep them with Gold Fish, they'll tend to eat the body slime of Gold Fish during night time...This has been my personal observation during good old days of keeping Gold Fishes...
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I wish this article had come earlier, and I could have read it and saved four of my golds 
Being slow moving, to me, loaches never appeared aggressive to anyother fish, but yes I did notice them following golds, and that I thought was just curiosity on the part of the loach.
As my gold were nearing their end, I did notice a strange kind of discoloration on then - I guess that explains the loaches stealing the body slime as you have put it.
Well, that's another lesson learnt in what fish to mix with whom - though I learnt it the hard way
Suby |
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